Father Marcus Littleton is one of three humans, along with Canon Damian Shanhan and Father Hugo Cortez, who studied and translated the Naturom Demonto in the 1920s and awoke the Kandarian Demon.
Marcus Littleton first appeared in the 2023 film Evil Dead Rise. He was voiced by Mark Mitchinson, while an unidentified actor appeared as Littleton in a photograph seen in the film.
Biography[]
In the 1920s, Father Littleton was associated with St. Patrick's Cathedral in Los Angeles, California. By 1923, he was in the possession of a volume of Naturom Demonto. He presented the book to fellow clergymen on November 13, 1923. He sought approval from the church to translate the book, as he believed that some of its passages could possibly benefit humanity, but was rejected by the elders.
Afterwards, Father Littleton worked with Canon Damian Shanhan and Father Hugo Cortez to study and translate the book in secret. After translating a spiritual resurrection passage, Littleton made a recording of himself reading aloud the incantation on a vinyl record for archival purposes. The incantation awoke an entity known as the Kandarian Demon, which attacked and turned Father Cortez into a Deadite. Canon Shanhan and several other priests were soon possessed as well, leaving Littleton to fight them.
Once he had defeated the Deadites, Littleton took the book and hid it within a secret vault alongside other various religious objects within a Los Angeles bank.